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The Swedish songwriter Michael Saxell wrote and recorded the song "Cassiopeia"("My Love Belongs To You") on his Red and Blue album release(1986).
The Cuban artist Silvio Rodríguez wrote a song to Cassiopeia just after almost dying in a car crash.
Rock group Third Eye Blind mentions Cassiopeia in their song "Bonfire" and companion song "Lightning Comes, Goes".
Shabutie (now Coheed and Cambria) wrote a song called Cassiopeia on their "Penelope EP"
Also, the Korean group TVXQ's fanbase was named after this constellation because of the positioning of the letters TVfXQ on the keyboard (a variant of their group name) resembled that of the constellation. The official TVXQ Korean fanclub (Cassiopeia) was in the 2008 Guinness world records for largest official fanclub in the world.
The constellation features in the storyline of the 2001 film Serendipity.
The binary star that is the main star of the constellation, features as setting for at least a part of Charles Sheffield's 1985 Science Fiction novel, Between the Strokes of Night.
On Joanna Newsom's independent label debut album The Milk-Eyed Mender, released on March 23, 2004 on by Drag City, the eighth song is titled Cassiopeia. It runs 3:20min.
Consumer electronics company Casio used Cassiopeia as the name for a line of Pocket PCs running Microsoft's Windows CE in the late 90s.
The constellation is mentioned in the movie Spartan by Val Kilmer while pointing out North on a map.
It is mentioned in the movie Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) as a sign of the second coming of Christ.
Cassiopeia is mentioned in the Broadway musical In the Heights during the song "Paciencia y Fe (Patience and Faith)".
Cassiopeia is the name of a song by the band Dragonland, on their album "Astronomy".
Cassiopeia is the name of the tortoise in Michael Ende's 1973 fantasy book titled MOMO. The tortoise can see exactly 30 minutes into the future and communicates by displaying words on her shell.
Cassiopeia is also the name of a champion in the multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends.
Cassiopeia is the title of the first track on the album "Under the Silver of Machines (2007)" by the Alt Rock band Last Winter.
In the 1967 Lost in Space episode "Mutiny in Space", there is an encounter with a spaceship of the "Imperial Cassiopeian Navy".
In the 1974 USSR movie Otroki vo vselennoy (Teens in the Universe), 7 teenage kids from Soviet Russia ( all Russians) crossed the interstellar space to land on the planet (orbiting Schedar, Alpha Cassiopeiae) to save its human population from enslaving robots.
In the French animated TV series Once Upon a Time... Space, the main antagonist is the military republic of Cassiopeé (Cassiopeia in French), whose symbol is the W formed by the brightest stars of that constellation.
In the original Super Sentai series, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, Cassiopeia's cosmic rays are the weakness of the main antagonist, the Black Cross Führer, and the names of the Gorengers themselves (with the exception of a temporary replacement for one of them) begin with one of the kana for Cassiopeia.
In Harry Potter, Cassiopeia Black was a pure-blood witch, the eldest daughter of Cygnus Black II and Violetta Bulstrode and sister of Pollux Black, Marius Black and Dorea Black. Cassiopeia never married or had any children.
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